The Taliban's Ministry of Industry and Commerce wrote in a statement that Uzbekistan has promised to help the group with soil laboratory equipment.

According to the statement, Uzbekistan is also scheduled to train 200 experts from Afghanistan in the agriculture sector.

According to the statement published on Thursday, December 27, officials of the Taliban's Ministry of Industry and Commerce held a video meeting with Uzbek officials.

The meeting was attended by the Taliban's deputy ministers of mines, agriculture, finance, transport, public works, and economy.

The statement said that Uzbek officials pledged at the meeting to provide the Taliban with "laboratory machinery capable of analysing and identifying 20 types of soil".

Although Uzbekistan does not recognise the Taliban like other countries, it has extensive diplomatic and economic relations with the group.

Earlier, on December 25, a group of male and female doctors from Uzbekistan arrived in Balkh to examine people in the province for free. The country delivered a shipment of food and medicine to the Taliban on the same day.